Jack Monroe again

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Has anyone seen the recent tweet about her pawning/selling three diamond engagement rings? Aibu to think if you are pleading poverty and asking the general public to donate money one week and then showing off pictures of three massive diamonds you own the next, it's never going to go down well? Especially when you are already being challenged on lying and grifting?

For a long time I thought JM was nothing but a force of a good but I can't understand how she can be so tone deaf. It can't be deliberate but equally how can she not realise how it looks to produce three huge rings just a week after claiming she's so skint she needs handouts.

Apologies if there's already a thread on this.

She is all over Twitter today claiming that she's not poor, hasn't been for sometime and that she is being misrepresented
she has gaslighting down to a fine art

It just exploded everywhere

Is she claiming then she got hacked and it was someone else that wrote that she was unscrewing lightbulbs and boiling down soap to make shower gel just a couple of weeks ago?

She's a screwball quite frankly.

I am slightly fuming at
"Accounts have been with my accountant for weeks. I have adhd"

Great.

On her Twitter in the last hour:

"could find other examples, but I’ve actually got quite a lot to be getting on with. I’m not in poverty today, and I’ve been quite clear about that for a number of years now.
Jack Monroe 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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I have had some sticky experiences, some near misses, some late rent payments (but never missed, I’ve learned to talk to my letting agent not hide and hope), some horrible periods, and yes I talk about these and their impact. Probably unwisely; but I do."

So you were unscrewing lightbulbs and boiling up soap for... fun?

It does seem like the wheels are falling off a bit now with some more people calling her out on Twitter. The problem is she had closed replies except to those she follows so there's not much in the way of conversation...

Closed replies = hoping no challenge

This is because a journalist who works for Private Eye among others has questioned her on there. Unsurprisingly she’s not happy but is doubling down rather than being careful as one should be if an investigative journo is sniffing around your finances…

She really needs to stop tweeting. The latest article seems to have a little bit of interest, but there hasn't been anywhere near the backlash that many other social media influences and public figures would have experienced.

If a journalist digs into her finances and exposes her as the con artist that she is, then that's a can or worms or spaghetti hoops that she won't be able to close.

Apparently she's just been on some BBC News panel about the cost of living crisis, just a few days after saying she's turned down loads of television work because she'd rather (IIRC) scoop her eyes out with a rusty spoon than appear on television.

I'd also like to know about her alleged period of homelessness several years ago. I've seen people claim her social media posts from the time throw doubt on the story.

I always wonder how her comfortably-off, pillar-of-the-community parents feel about her allowing the world to infer that they have watched their daughter and grandson struggle and suffer for years and done nothing to help. If I actually believed Jack I'd think they were terrible people for not at least bunging her a few quid so she didn't have to turn off all the lights and take cold showers.

Or indeed the father of her child. Who she has praised quite lavishly, but apparently let them scrape an existence?

Has she removed the blog post about boiling soap etc?

Just checked the blog post of 4 weeks ago is still there!!
Has she forgotten she posted it?

BuenoSucia. I have just ordered a second hand Tiny Budget Cooking. £3:85 including postage. Thanks!

Yes, she claimed she was too embarrassed to tell her parents about the hardship she was going through years ago, but she can't claim they don't know about the (ahem!) hardship now because she's posted all over social media about pawning her belongings and going without shampoo. It doesn't show them in a great light. Why make all the posts about having to live in the expensive south-east to be near family if said family are happy to watch you struggle in dire poverty? Like many things, it doesn't make sense.

Didn't she win a few hundred thousand from Katie Hopkins? Where did that money go?

Honestly think she’s gotten away with this for so long she thinks she’s untouchable. She’s spent the day threatening people with suing them. This technique has worked on individuals before but there are too many others questioning her now.

I raised the issue of homelessness because apparently the journalist suffering a pile-on by her cult on Twitter was himself homeless at one point.

As for charity money: have you ever heard of a charity that doesn't want publicity? Why would charities want her to send them money discreetly?

Darling I have never hated a man enough to give him back his jewelry.

I have to say though the engagement rings would’ve gone long before I’d be boiling down soap to make shampoo.

Well, this is what happens when you lie, you can't keep up. The tweet attached is what she posted during one of her many rants.

Yet the very next day she was on This Morning doing a cooking segment and when Ruth asked about her child, Jack said he was at his dad's at that moment because they split childcare.

She 'only' got £24k from that. KH had to pay the legal costs which came to £300,000 which is why she had to sell her house.

(I say 'only' because the costs were so much more than the amount Jack won. £24k is actually a nice tidy sum for most people and if Jack had been wiser, she could have put it towards a deposit for the forever home that she's constantly wanging on about, but I think she said she spent part of it on a sofa).

Maybe she means she hasn’t had any childcare beyond the normal 50% that she arranges her life around, some people genuinely can’t even manage to take care of their kids 50% of the time. That staggers me as somebody who does 80% of the childcare but still we are all different.

That could possibly make sense, except a month before she was filming a two-week daily TV stint during which she'd said that while she was preparing and also filming for that, he was with his father for the majority of the time.

Considering the sheer amount that she tweets, it's odd that she lets her audience know that she jets off to so many European mini-breaks yet no mention of her child with her. And it can't be because of privacy because she has no problem mentioning him with her when it's 'needed'.

That's not a slight, btw. Just pointing out yet another inconsistency.

At least she's now saying she's categorically not poor, so hopefully she can't then do the desperado dance any more.